Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• Vroom for Improvement
• Nov 1, 2007
• New ordinances seek to reduce motorcycle noise.
• 4 Comments

• Change Agent
• Nov 1, 2007
• Two years ago, Missouri's new governor, Matt Blunt, and the state's new chief information officer, Dan Ross, had a vision: an efficient, centralized, streamlined IT operation that delivered each cabinet agency the services it needed while relieving the agencies of the considerable burden of managing an IT shop. Accomplishing this goal meant consolidating the technology operations of 14 agencies, with thousands of employees and more than $250 million in funding among them.

• Fresh Perspectives
• Nov 1, 2007
• Much of the time in government, change is brought about by those on the inside. Over the years, we have often told the story of career public servants who knew precisely how to transform troubled institutions once they got the chance.

• Text Talk: Boston Keys in for Crime Tips
• Oct 1, 2007
• Picking up and dialing from a pay phone is the best way to give an anonymous crime tip to police. Or is it?

• The Power Switch
• Oct 1, 2007
• The emerging topic for state CIOs is how to reconfigure desktops and computing practices to save energy.

• The Power Switch
• Oct 1, 2007
• The emerging topic for state CIOs is how to reconfigure desktops and computing practices to save energy.

• Radio Activity
• Sep 30, 2007
• Two years ago, a report came in of a plane crash on a grassy hillside near Anchorage's airport, in the middle of a park where...

• Job Jot: Alabama's Winner of a Car Deal
• Sep 1, 2007
• Now that Mercedes-Benz has been assembling vehicles in Alabama for 10 years, the state can crow about the wisdom of its 1993 decision to woo the company with tax breaks.
• 1 Comments

• eHealth confidential
• Sep 1, 2007
• Can health information exchange systems keep snoops out of patients' online records?

• The Big Spill
• Sep 1, 2007
• When trucks lose their loads, cleaning up gets creative.

• Check-up: Do Docs Need Financial Aid?
• Aug 20, 2007
• One thing a lot of people don't think about when discussing the idea of a national health records exchange is that it all begins in ...
• 4 Comments

• Promises, Promises
• Aug 14, 2007
• Now that Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson has dropped out of the race for president, I guess breast cancer is going to remain a ...

• A Red is a Red is a Red
• Aug 7, 2007
• This week is National Stop on Red week. Which does not  mean you get to Go on Red all other times. The week of ...
• 8 Comments

• Tribes and Tribulations
• Aug 1, 2007
• Localities are struggling to deal with the issues that arise from being adjacent to Indian lands.

• 311 Potholes
• Aug 1, 2007
• Consolidating call centers is proving to be a boon to cities, but the roll-outs are rough.